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Last month, a group of more than 130 young Success Academy students flew to Nashville, Tennessee to participate in a national chess competition.

The chess SuperNationals is one of the biggest and most prestigious chess competitions in the country, but this certainly did not seem to worry Success Academy students, some of whom had never left New York state before and never flown on a plane.

Instead, they settled in to play the best chess they could and, when the event was over, one Success Academy team tied in first place in its chess division, while several other teams placed in the top six.

Considering this was the first such competition they had entered, and that they were competing against some of the best young chess players in the country, many from affluent families, the success of these young Success Academy students was monumental.

So how did the Success Academy students beat their peers at chess? What makes them able to do something that, only a few years ago before Success Academy was founded, many in the U.S. would have said was not possible?

It all lies in the way Success Academy treats its students, and how it teaches and educates them.

With their performances at the chess SuperNationals against students with far more supposed ‘advantages’, these young Success Academy students proved hard work, having fun and enjoying what you do really can reap massive rewards.